                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                    Part VI--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 1652. Separability

    If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any 
person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, 
and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, 
shall not be affected thereby.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 652, 46 Stat. 763.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 645, 42 Stat. 990. That section 
was superseded by section 652 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.


        Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978

    Pub. L. 95-410, title IV, Sec. 401, Oct. 3, 1978, 92 Stat. 905, 
provided that: ``If any provision of this Act [see Short Title of 1978 
Amendment note set out under section 1654 of this title], or the 
application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the 
remainder of the provisions of this Act and the application of such 
provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 
thereby.''
